{"product_id":"the-doomed-city-rediscovered-classics-9781613735961","title":"The Doomed City (Rediscovered Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe magnum opus of Russias greatest science fiction novelists translated into English for the first time  Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters  and their most famous work  Roadside Picnic  has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel they worked hardest on  that was their own favorite  and that readers worldwide have acclaimed as their magnum opus  has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatsky brothers kept its existence a complete secret even from their closest friends for sixteen years after its completion in 1972. It was only published in Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s  the last of their works to see publication. It was translated into a host of European languages  and now appears in English in a major new effort by acclaimed translator Andrew Bromfield.  The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night  bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentiethcentury history at various times and places and left to govern themselves  advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. Andrei Voronin  a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s  is a die-hard believer in the Experiment  even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. And as increasinbly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city  he rises through the political hierarchy  with devastating effect. Boris Strugatsky wrote that the task of writing The Doomed City was genuinely delightful and fascinating work. Readers will doubtless say the same of the experience of reading it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67930119864373,"sku":"ByrdShop_1613735960","price":345.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781613735961.jpg?v=1794205734","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-doomed-city-rediscovered-classics-9781613735961","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}